The study has been published in Nature. Unlike regular ice, plastic Ice VII requires extreme conditions to form.

Previously predicted by theoretical models, we now have the first experimental observation of plastic Ice VII. That might ...

Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

While on Earth we mostly encounter the hexagonal, crystalline ice (like ice cubes, glaciers, snow), there are at least 20 other known ice phases, many of which have merely been theorised to exist in ...

An anglerfish has gone viral on social media after a team of researchers based in the Canary Islands on January 26th spotted ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly observed plastic ice VII. This hybrid phase, predicted years ago but only ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of which – predicted to exist at high temperature ...

Department of Macromolecular Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic ...